Reasons For Raising Rabbits

Rabbit Ranching

Reasons For Raising Rabbits

Raising rabbits can be a rewarding and worthwhile endeavor for many reasons. Firstly, rabbits are a good source of protein, as their meat is lean and easy to digest. Additionally, their manure contains high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, making it an excellent source of fertilizer for gardens and crops.

Rabbits are also relatively low-maintenance pets that can be kept in small spaces, making them an ideal choice for urban environments or homes with limited outdoor space. Finally, for those interested in sustainable living, raising rabbits can be a way to reduce reliance on store-bought meat and fertilizer, and promote self-sufficiency.

Raising rabbits can have many benefits, both for personal and commercial reasons. Rabbits are relatively easy to care for and can be raised for their meat or fur. They are also popular as pets, as they are social animals that can be trained to use a litter box.

Additionally, rabbit manure is a great source of fertilizer for gardens. Overall, raising rabbits can be a rewarding and sustainable practice.

Facilities Needed For Rabbit Ranching

Facilities needed for rabbit ranching include proper shelter and housing for the rabbits, feed and water systems, medical supplies for sick or injured rabbits, and equipment for breeding and raising offspring.

Additionally, it's important to have a secure perimeter fence to keep predators out and prevent the rabbits from escaping. These facilities are crucial for ensuring the health and safety of the rabbits, as well as maximizing the productivity and profitability of the rabbitry.

Raising rabbits for commercial purposes requires specific facilities to ensure the comfort, health, and productivity of the animals. These facilities should include well-ventilated and appropriately sized cages or hutches that protect the rabbits from extreme weather and predators.

Additionally, an area for food storage, cleaning equipment, and medical supplies should be available. An efficient drainage and waste management system is also necessary to maintain hygienic conditions.

Lastly, there should be a dedicated area for breeding and raising young rabbits, as well as a separate space for sick or injured animals.

Choosing Rabbit Breeds

Choosing rabbit breeds requires careful consideration of several factors. You must think about the purpose of acquiring the rabbit, whether it's for pets, meat production, or breeding. You should also consider the breed's temperament, grooming requirements, and space requirements.

Choosing a rabbit breed can be a fun and exciting experience. There are many different breeds to choose from, each with its own unique characteristics and traits. Some breeds are best suited for families with children, while others are better suited for experienced rabbit owners.

Factors to consider when choosing a rabbit breed include temperament, size, grooming requirements, and activity level. By doing some research and considering your lifestyle and preferences, you can find the perfect rabbit breed for you.

Some popular breeds for pets include the Netherland Dwarf, Holland Lop, and Rex, while breeds such as the New Zealand and Californian are popular for meat production. It's essential to research and choose the right breed that suits your needs and lifestyle.

Feeding Rabbits

Feeding rabbits is an important aspect of rabbit ranching. It is essential to provide them with a balanced diet that includes hay, fresh vegetables, and fruits, as well as pellets that are specifically formulated for rabbits.

Rabbits also require a constant supply of fresh, clean water. It is important to monitor their weight and adjust their diet accordingly to prevent obesity or undernourishment. Additionally, it is important to provide them with a clean and comfortable living environment to maintain their health and well-being.

Feeding rabbits is an important aspect of rabbit ranching. Rabbits require a balanced and nutritious diet to maintain good health and growth. The diet should consist of fresh hay, vegetables, and a small amount of pellets.

It is important to provide clean water and ensure that the rabbits have access to it at all times. Overfeeding or giving the wrong kind of food can lead to health problems for the rabbits, so it is important to be mindful and provide the appropriate diet for these animals.

Watering Rabbits

Watering rabbits is an important aspect of rabbit ranching. Providing rabbits with clean and fresh water is essential for their health and well-being. It is recommended to use watering systems that are easy to clean and maintain, such as automatic watering nipples or water bowls.

Regularly checking the watering system and ensuring that the rabbits have access to water at all times is crucial in rabbit ranching. In addition, providing clean and fresh water can also help prevent the spread of diseases among rabbits.

Watering rabbits is an important task when it comes to rabbit ranching. Rabbits need access to clean water at all times, so it's important to regularly check their water sources and refill them as needed.

In addition to keeping your rabbits healthy, providing them with clean water can also improve the overall quality of their meat or fur. When watering your rabbits, be sure to use clean containers and change the water frequently to prevent the build-up of bacteria or other harmful substances.

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News Trend Happy Twelfth Day Of Christmas|Actual

"There's only now, t here's only here

Give in to love  o r live in fear

No other path, n o other way

No day but today."

- Idina Menzel

This year, instead of making New Year's resolutions, I adopted a New Year's theme.

Resolutions, as we all well know, are rules that take the shape of fussy dos and don'ts, often particular, picky and difficult to perform.Three weeks in, we've broken them all and once the guilt wears off, the whole exercise is blessedly forgotten.

A theme, by contrast, is a unifying idea that provides inspiration and guidance, priority and direction.

Simply put, themes are to carrots as resolutions are to sticks, and I personally can get excited about that distinction.

So. My 2016 theme did not fall from the sky on January 1; it's been growing in my head for the past few months and finally came tumbling out in fully formed sentences:

This is the point in my life when I am no longer content to wait for things to happen.

Though my life is good, my head and heart are full of dreams and I want to make them all come true.

I need to find ways to bring my dreams to life without using my modest finances as a barrier, or an excuse to delay.

No one knows how much life lies ahead of them. I want to use every minute I have, and when the day comes that I've run out of time, I want to look back with no regrets.

There is no day but today for making my dreams come true.

Yes, I know this sounds very Eat, Pray, Love, and while I'm most certainly in favor of roaming the world and eating pasta, my theme also has repercussions on a much smaller level.

Take today, for instance.

Months ago, I read about a genius idea for marking all those ubiquitous white charging cords and power blocks that lie around our post-modern homes with little snippets of washi tape, so that each person in the household can sort out one another's property.

Well. my charging paraphernalia is constantly intermingled with my daughters' accessories, and I own several rolls of washi tape. The project would take zero dollars and five minutes to complete, and would save me at least that much time every single day of my life.

Still, many moons have passed, and I've never bothered to make that simple task happen.

Until today.

There was nothing special about today. As usual, I ran across a stray cord on the kitchen counter, puzzled over whose it might be, and then thought for the millionth time about that washi tape idea. But today, as I laid down the cord and began to move away, the words of my theme rang out in my head:

No day but today.

Fast forward a few minutes, and the job was done. I cannot describe the satisfaction and pleasure I feel every time I notice the little polka dotted tags on my gear.

Yes, they do make my life easier.

But much more importantly, they remind me that my theme for this year is powerful and good and true.

There really is no day but today.

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Celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas with me!

The First Day

The Second Day

The Third Day

The Fourth Day

The Fifth Day

The Sixth Day

The Seventh Day

The Eighth Day

The Ninth Day

The Tenth Day

The Eleventh Day

The Twelfth Day

AndEpiphany too.

News Trend Turquoise And Orange|Actual

When I was a little girl, my home was decorated in mid-century terkini style.

Back then, my mom called it Danish design. We didn't think of ourselves as mid-centurions just yet.

Crisp white walls

Teak sofa and side chairs

Hairpin leg tables

Pole lamps

Philodendrons

And here and there against the clean Scandinavian aesthetic, splashes of turquoise and orange.

Even the front door was painted turquoise. My mom's brazen use of color set the neighbors' tongues a-waggin', and I'm sure they were mad jealous of her bold sense of style.

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All these images and memories come flooding back to me whenever, like today, I see a composition of turquoise and orange.

A walk through the produce aisle turns into a stroll down memory lane, and that is a nice little surprise in my day.

News Trend Inspiring Impressionism|Actual

Hi, my name's Seattle Art Museum but you can call me SAM.

Dreams came true for me this week as I saw with my own eyes some of my favorite Impressionist paintings at the Seattle Art Museum.

As I strolled among the masterpieces and filled my soul with their sparkle and light, my mind traveled back through the decades to the year that I was seventeen.

That's when my senior-in-high-school self signed up for an art history group.

^ Certain artists and paintings generate an electric surge of excitement within me when I see them in person. This one by Degas on his beloved theme of horses was the first piece I saw and delivered quite a jolt.

^ Impressionism was an art movement concerned not so much with working out the precise details of a subject, but quickly capturing a general impression with bold, unblended brush strokes.

In those days, we called it art humanities, and at my school, this class was touted as the most challenging offering in the entire curriculum. Besides teaching us about frescoes, chiaroscuro and Op Art, Mrs. Rose considered it her privilege and fist-shaking duty to break down our high school hubris and invoke in us a terror for the rigors of college.

Little did she know that her class would teach me three interesting things far beyond the syllabus.

1. Maybe I was ready for the Big World after all.

Up until I took this group, when it came to academics, I was the kind of student who skated by on a sharp memory and a quick mind. With precious little effort, I had always been able to master my classes and bring home top grades.

And while that's a nice skill set, I was also well aware that college was likely to be a deeper pond in which I might not so successfully swim. What I learned from Mrs. Rose was that I was indeed capable of upping my game and meeting her lofty standards. Little did she know that instead of beating me down, her academic rigor gave me waves of confidence that swept me forward into college.

^ The idea of painting peasants at work in an orchard was a revolutionary and shocking idea in 19th century France. Go figure.

This one hung over my dorm room desk for four straight years.

^ Impressionist painters obsessed over the art of capturing reflected light on water.

I, for one, am glad for their obsessions.

2.  It's entirely possible to learn and have fun at the same time.

My shamelessly sassy and oh-so-smart friend, Jeff Miller, happened to attend the group with me. And I must say, we had a blast together. As we slogged through long afternoons of Madonna and Child slides in a darkened classroom, he would lean back over my desk and whisper improvised obrolan from the characters in the paintings. His impersonations of other, more serious students in our class were bang-on and snicker-inducing, And when Jeff was particularly feeling his oats, he would drop a pencil on the floor and while ducking down to pick it up, yell out our favorite nickname for our short and stout instructor; "Puaka!"

I know. Taken out of context, those antics sound janggal and adolescent. But there in the back of the classroom, our teenage selves would collapse into snorting giggles and find ourselves completely entertained with our outrageous wit.

Certainly, Mrs. Rose could sniff out troublemakers even in the dark, and she would retaliate by asking either Jeff or me a pointed question about whatever she had just said. Luckily, both of us had the ability to listen as we goofed off, and we compounded her anger with our flawless answers.

In the end, she gave us both As on our report cards. She had to. We killed every test and totally mastered her material. But she also gave us the lowest possible scores for our classroom behavior and contented herself with that punishment. I slow clap her to this very day for that frustrated and entirely futile comeback.

 ^ I've been lucky to see a handful of Van Goghs in my day, and they send shock waves through my soul. This old school work of Dutch tulip fields tells a more restrained color story than his later works, but I love it just the same.

This one also decorated my dorm rooms throughout my college career.

^ Up close, this is nothing but a mishmash of green lines and colored blobs. But take one step back, and the chaos transforms to a tranquil meadow in bloom.

3. Art is me.

During my childhood, like all children, I received endless messages, both mulut and nonverbal, about who I was and who I was not. In this way, my parents clearly informed me that I was a person of math and science, and perhaps music. But I was most definitely not an artist. Art, I gathered, did not run in our family, and my occasional requests to foray into that area were met with the message that I was not meant to live in the world of art.

But this art history group Alfred Sisley

Especially personal for me were the works of the Impressionists. I loved their landscapes, their still lifes and informal portraiture, their en plein air philosophy and game-changing focus on the beauty of the simple life. I carried that passion far beyond my high school classroom to this very day.

 ^ Impressionist painters typically used a color palette invoking fresh air, fresh flowers and fruits, and a fresh way of looking at the world. Rather than paint the table a single color, Cezanne opted to capture the many tones and hues created by the play of light across the wood.

^ Outdoor scenes often captured idyllic picnics in dappled shade. Painted hastily on easels, these compositions are perfect example of the Impressionists' preference for working out of doors.

These are the memories that danced through my mind as I wandered among the Degas and Pissarros, Monets and Renoirs. I am thankful, once again, for a strong-willed teacher whose determination to beat me down actually built me up in life-changing ways, inspired me to pursue a love of art, and made me very much the person I am today.

Thanks, Puaka!

^ Though the overall effect of this painting a bit dark and somber for a typical Impressionist work, the brush strokes in these oysters are classically loose and bold.

^ Just to be sure that we don't miss the Impressionists' vital sense of playful humor, consider this piece, entitled Mound of Butter.

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The works shown are from the Intimate Impressionism exhibit:

The Races | Edgar Degas

George Moore in the Artist's Garden | Edouard Manet

Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes | Camille Pissarro

Festival in the Harbor of Honfleur |Eugène Boudin

Flower Beds in Holland | Vincent Van Gogh

Meadow | Alfred Sisley

Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit | Paul C ézanne

Table Set in a Garden | Pierre Bonnard

Oysters | Edouard Manet

Mound of Butter | Antoine Vollon

News Trend Simple Life|Actual

Lean,

Simple.

Pure.

This minimalist, mostly abstract work is everything that Impressionism - natural and fresh and filled with dappled light - is not.

Yet both styles of art sing to me.

And in both, I see the world.

Because both are bursting with life.

Watching people.

People watching people.

Watching cowboy Elvis.

Irregular orange rectangles

Stacked blue squares.

 I am seriously thinking about climbing them.

 Yellow fades to purple

Glass fractures light.

 Golden squares on squares.

 Geometry unleashed.

I never tire of contemplating this simple life.

News Trend My Day Among The Slabs|Actual

Hello, gorgeous slabs of stone. I am here to kiss you.

If you watch HGTV as obsessively as I do, chances are good that we share the bucket list item of one day shopping at a granite slab warehouse.

We took more photos than the paparazzi outside Bieber's room in Bora Bora. No regrets.

Come on. How could anyone watch Christina run her hands over one piece of magnificent stone after the next, unfailingly choosing the one with sparkles, without madly desiring to do the exact same thing?

I mean, I could do without Tarek standing around whining about the cost, because he knows full well that his wife always - and I mean always - nails the kitchen design, which then drives their flip's selling price into the stratosphere, week after week after week. Christina will get her sparkles in the end.

It's all a part of their process, am I right?

Going in, I thought I'd given my heart to this one, a quartz product called Statuario.

But in real life, the veining looked a bit more engineered than natural, and I fell firmly out of love.

Natural granite boggles my mind. The luxuriant colors and designs sweep me off my feet, but ultimately feel too detailed for my moderately minimalist tendencies. I blew this one a kiss and walked on.

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If, by some fatal flaw in the universe, you are reading these words and saying "HG what now?" then please, let me fill you in. I'm talking about the Home and Garden TV network, and one of its hit shows, Flip or Flop, which showcases the renovation skills and real estate finesse of a Socal couple named Tarek and Christina.

These two fix up houses that are nasty beyond the human imagination and sell them for insane profits. And many episodes feature an iconic scene wherein the kids pick out just the right stone slabs for their redesigned counter tops, while the viewers - and I speak for myself - drool all over themselves at home.

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So last week, as our slow-motion and multi-phased kitchen reno moved on toward new counter tops, my slab-selecting dreams came true.

Whoa now. This showstopper hunk of marble made me weak in the knees, and when

I found the price to be within my range, I went home wearing his promise ring.

Sadly, when I returned a few days later to seal the deal, I learned that this slab had been mislabeled

 and was actually priced far beyond my means. Dang it. The search was on yet again.

Daughters Two and Four accompanied me to Pental Granite & Marble where we strolled for a solid hour among the slabs, alternately seeking out specimens to fit our exact criteria, and wandering aimlessly down row after row after row of gorgeous stone to simply drink them in..

Expectations definitely met.

Bucket list item officially ticked.

Dream come true.

New search. new slab, new love story.

This is a humble yet handsome honed Carrara marble that fits into my pocketbook, and promises to bring my eighties oak cabinets up a notch or two. I've committed myself to him, and we are to be united in mid-February.

And while I am excited to see the stone we ultimately chose come to life as counters in my very own kitchen, I will never forget the glory of my day among the slabs.

News Trend Signs of Spring|Actual

Yesterday, I took down all my paper snowflakes, ironed them, and packed them away till next year.

Yes, I do iron my snowflakes.

That's not weird.

What's weird is that the day actually warm enough that I could manage this task in my bare feet.

Hmm. Ironed snowflakes and bare feet.

These are two very good signs that spring must be right around the corner.

News Trend Making It Happen|Actual

"A dream doesnt become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

-Colin Powell

More than a decade ago, my second-born's middle school buddy - named Scotty - told her that someday he would be a famous rapper and his stage name would be Ska-T.

Now, pretty much every kid in America dreams of becoming a rock star.

Or a professional athlete.

Or an astronaut.

Or in the case of some overachievers, all three.

But here's the thing. Scotty did not just sit around dreaming.

After getting the practical aspects of his adult life together, he got to work on making his dream come true. For the past year, Ska-T has been recording music, performing at clubs around Seattle and perfecting his art.

Here are a few shots from last week's show at The Jet:

Artistically speaking, Ska-T describes his style as a high-energy and unforgettable blend of Hip-Hop and Reggae with hard hitting, faced paced flows and laid-back tropical vibes.

You can pretty much smell the Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion and feel the sand between your toes as you listen.

Ska-T boasts a commanding stage presence far beyond his experience, and uses wardrobe changes, logos,, props and giveaways to engage the crowd on multiple levels.

He also taps into some family talents: that's his dad, the legendary Conman, on drums, and his brother - aka Twisted Chich - waving the Jolly Roger for all he's worth.

A multisensory feast for any music aficionado, Ska-T entertains across a broad spectrum and is well worth a listen.

And I'm not just saying that because he's my friend and former student.

Or because his mother is my BFF.

Or even because I am a sucker for all things Jamaican. I mean come on, that bobsled team..

I support and encourage Ska-T because I believe in the power of dreams coming true. And I'm fiercely proud of Scotty - the man behind the music - for putting in the sweat, determination and hard work required to make it happen.

Photo credits to Heidi who always, always has her camera pointed in the right place at the right time. <3

News Trend A Good Sunday Evening|Actual

As I sit down to write tonight, a half-dozen ideas are ping-pinging around in my head:

I could tell you a story about the art I made this weekend.

Or the excitement in my cats' lives as I dragged their favorite old broken-down wicker chair back out to a sunny corner of the patio.

I've got some pretty pictures of fresh flowers on my camera roll that would be perfect for sharing.

Plus I had an interesting adventure to watch the U.S. Women's Hockey team practice for the upcoming world championships. They're working out in my backyard, so to speak, at the Everett Events Cebter and you can go watch them for free any night this week.

But honestly, I don't really feel like talking about any of that.

I'd much rather drink in the last peaceful minutes of this good Sunday evening and wish you a blessedly normal and happy new week ahead.

News Trend How To Style Bookshelves* |Actual

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Today, I tackled the job of dusting and restyling my library bookshelves.

Whoa now. You know I didn't just run a fiber cloth across the whole arrangement, and call it a day.

No, no, no. Bookcases demand much more effort and intention than that.

What we need, here in the new millennium, are bookshelves that are arranged - nay, curated - to showcase artsy collections of carefully layered items of decor in prescribed and complicated ways.

There are innumerable articles and videos threatening to tip over the internet that purport to teach us exactly how to perfect this. And while I'm always open to new ideas, I find that many of the styling tips I read online do not jive with reality.

So allow me to offer my own bookshelf styling hints and tips, starting with the best that the design world has to offer but adapted to work my very own real life.

Step 1: Organize your books

Start by emptying your shelves. Dust them thoroughly and then carefully add back only your favorite and most cherished volumes.

First off, do not - repeat do not! - empty your bookshelves. The teetering piles of unshelved books will overwhelm your workspace and your motivation, and if you're like me, you will either give up and go watch the fifth season of Psych yet again, or risk death by avalanching books. That's a slippery slope we never want to face, Instead, just dust one small section at a time, scooting out a handful of books and wiping them down and the shelf underneath as best you can without ever actually taking them down off the shelf.

Now, at this phase it's important to be realistic about your inventory. In my case, I need to wrap my head around the fact that my bookcases are full of books. Sometimes, I wish I was working with nothing more than a half dozen sleek leather-bound volumes of poetry, or a stack of glossy photo essays on graphic design, but friends, that is simply not the case.

My shelves house approximately one billion sun-bleached, serious-slash-boring-looking books.

Most of this collection belongs to my husband and includes autobiographies of Washington, Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Winston Churchill and Henry Kissinger. There are handfuls of books about military planes, famous generals and illustrated battles. We also happen to own a full set of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Not even kidding.

The simple truth is that my bookcases are probably always going to be jammed full of these no-nonsense books.

And while these are important books and useful books and books that I am perfectly proud to own, they are in no stretch of the imagination pretty books. So, in the spirit of compromise that marriage demands, I turn most of them around to hide their drab navy and maroon bindings, and work from there.

Step 2: Add artwork

Gather up a collection of framed artwork to be propped up in the empty spaces between the books, or layered in front of the books. These pieces will add visual interest and draw the eye to different depths along the shelves.

This is a lovely idea.

I can just imagine sweet watercolors and hand-drawn pen-and-ink sketches, tucked here and there among the volumes. Truthfully, I've optimistically experimented with this technique, to a single result.

Too cluttery.

Those aforementioned bazillion backwards books of mine go a long way in filling in my available bookshelf real estate, and any framed pieces that attempt to join the mix are simply trampled underfoot and end up as visual clutter.

No bueno.

So, what with necessity being the mother of invention and all, I've developed an alternative approach: I use strategically colored books to fill in the gaps.

I know, I know. Displaying books by color is so 2007, but I'm sold on this trick. Choosing a limited color palette, I drag myself through the thrift stores until I amass a substantial hoard, and then use these treasures to accomplish the same goal. The punctuation of the fresh colors - especially among the backwards books on my shelves - creates the desired visual interest and keeps the eye moving along, just as the framed art is meant to do.

Step 3: Mix it up!

Bring in an assortment of vases, bowls, sculpture, collections in a variety of shapes, materials and textures, to mix among the books and art on the shelves. Shop your house for interesting objects. Edit carefully to achieve a harmonious look.

This step is often a curse and a blessing for bookcase stylists. Because there are an infinite number of objects available in the universe for such purposes, and countless ways to arrange them.  Honestly, the whole process can become a labyrinth of options and on more than once occasion have I rearranged the same ten items over and over, desperately seeking but never quite managing to achieve styling nirvana.

So my mantra here is simple: don't take this part of the process too seriously. The shelves look fine.

Also, beware of the treacherous advice about shopping the house.

No, no, no, I say. This is a terrible idea. Because if I wander past the living room coffee table and lift a knick-knack to carry away to my library bookshelves, I am creating a new problem. The empty space on that coffee table is going to haunt me until I am driven to pull some other curio from my dining room cupboard, to be replaced by an ornament off the kitchen counter, to be filled in by something from some other room...

You see the problem.

Do not - repeat do not! - set off this chain of decor dominoes unless you fully intend to drive yourself mad, and turn every room in the house upside down in the process. Trust me, I have been there and I have done that. It's not pretty.

Honestly, when I find myself a bit short on trinkets for a styling project, I've learned that the wisest solution is to hop on over to Target or Urban Outfitters or Hobby Lobby or Value Village or wherever it is that I'm most likely to find choice tidbits, and drop a few dollars on something new.

My family, who has waited out many a late dinner because of my errant "shop the house" exploits, firmly supports this strategy. They will, on occasion, even drive me to the store and place objects in my hands, saying, Yes, buy it. Life will be so much simpler if you do.

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So I made good progress on my shelves today. The basic books are dusted and tentatively arranged on the clean shelves. My arsenal of red-, yellow- and orange-covered volumes stand arrayed across the couch, and my heap of tchotchkes is ready and waiting.

Honestly, I got all the boring work done and was just about to start in on the fun stuff when this happened:

Today's work session was cut short by a red-haired gentleman who showed up at my door, expressing great certainty that walk time had arrived. He was right. I can't say no to that earnest little face.

But come tomorrow, I shall style the crap out of those bookshelves. Just you wait and see.